RED FIRE FARM TOMATO FESTIVAL 2008

FINAL RACE RESULTS ARE IN!

Tomato Trot 2008 Race Results, click here.

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Info from the recent Tomato Festival:

Save the date for this year's Festival :
Saturday, August 23, 2008.
Rain or Shine!

Three Bands
Four Chefs
Seventy Five Varieties of Tomatoes
... And More!

    Every year, we have an unbelievable selection of amazing and often award-winning tomatoes for you to taste. It's a great day at the farm, with everything from a 5K Tomato Trot field race to hay rides to cooking demonstrations to live music and a smorgasbord of local fare from area producers. Come and visit!
    This year we have our first barn contradance!

Directions to the farm, 7 Carver St. Granby, MA.

Tomato Trot Registration Open Now!

Download the Tomato Trot 5K info and sign-up form and mail it to us with a check to register for the race through our farm fields!

2008 Festival Schedule

Main Festival opens at 12 and goes to 5pm.

10:30 am - Tomato Trot 5K Starts
12 pm - Main festival opens
12 pm - Roger Ingraham cooks "Wildman Vegetarian Stew" in the cauldron.
12 pm - Preserving Tomatoes, a demonstration by Mary Nelen.
1:30 - Chef Mala Patel cooks Indian cuisine with local vegetables.
1:30 - Age Appropriate First Foods - learn to make your own baby food with Kelly Stellato-Petreaut in the barn.
3:00 - Cooking with Herbs by Chefs Mary Ellen and Denise Lemay from Stockbridge Herbs.
3:30 - Chef, gardener and author Ellen Ogden Cooking Demo, Wild Rice & Lentil Salad and Maple Tomato Salsa.

7:30-10:30 pm - Barn Contradance with Brendan Taafe and Ben. $5 at the door. Dance caller will be George Marshall.

Live Music all afternoon
Sarah Levecque Band
The Amity Front
The Drew Hickum Band

All Afternoon
Pick your own cherry and saucing tomatoes
Local vendors with samples
Fresh organic produce at the Farm Stand

Food at the Festival
Hillside Pizza
Red Fire Farm Grilled Corn
Wildman Stew
Open-face Tomato Sandwiches

Local Foods for Sale and Sample
Real Pickles
Appalachian Naturals Dressings and Salsa
Sidehill Farm Yogurt
Deborah’s Kitchen
Good 4 You Herbal Teas
Tuckaway Farm Olive Oil

Crafters and Artisans
Good Dirt Pottery
Stockbridge Herbs
Songline Emu Farm
Mountain to Seas Knits
Lill’s Soaps
Blais Wood Products
Shakerae Gourds
Teddy Bear Favorites
Alana Corriveau’s Bird House
Kiddstuff
Recycleze
Alisha Clarke Pottery

Kids Activities
Petting Zoo
Seed Planting
Crafting Demonstrations